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November 2024
Subject Matter Expert Auto-Assign
Stack Overflow for Teams Business now offers automation to make the assignment of subject matter experts (SMEs) easier and more consistent. When enabled, the site will automatically assign SME status when a user passes a reputation threshold for a given tag.
Subject Matter Experts page
A new subject matter experts page lists SMEs, relevant tags, how SME status was assigned, and date assigned.
September 2024
Subject Matter Experts enhancements
We added several changes that improve the management and visibility of subject matter experts (SMEs).
User profiles now show tags the user is an SME for.
When a moderator or admin designates a user as an SME, that user will see a pop-up notification.
The home page tag preferences modal now shows tags a user is an SME for.
The new home page tag widget shows tags a user is an SME for.
July 2024
Slack Markdown support
The Slack app now supports Markdown formatting, greatly improving readability of Stack Overflow content displayed in Slack.
Flexible bounties for moderators and administrators
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Business
SOE moderators and administrators can incentivize answers by adding bounties to questions without using their own reputation.
API v3 enhancements
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Business
API v3 received several enhancements:
New
users/manageendpoint with additional data fieldsGet user by
ExternalIDAdd user(s) to Community
June 2024
Communities page enhancements
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Business
We added the ability to search, filter, and sort Communities on the Communities page. You can also toggle between all Communities and the ones you’re a member of to access them even faster.
Homepage enhancements
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Business
A new tag modal makes it easier to manage tags from your homepage, and the "Your Contributions" tab now tracks your comments.
Improved user search
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Business
The "Ask team member" box will now search for users by email and external ID in addition to user name (requires SSO configuration). In addition, the user search dropdown will now show any subject matter expert (SME) associated with the tag.
April 2024
Homepage enhancements
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Business
We added additional homepage widgets with more actionable content to engage your users:
Reputation widget Shows reputation gains in a graph format.
Trending and unanswered questions An improved algorithm makes these sections more relevant to the user.
Your Contributions tab Allows users to view their contributions within the homepage.
Tag recommendations Based on their activity, recommends tags to users who are not yet watching any tags.
Welcome state Improved for new users
March 2024
New Homepage
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Business
We redesigned the homepage to add more actionable content to engage users, including For You overview, New trending content, New top unanswered questions, "Your Impact", badge progress, and recent activity.
January 2024
Your Stacked 2023
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Business
Your Year Stacked is an interactive activity summary that goes beyond the dashboard to provide a curated, interactive recap of community engagement. Users can see their contributions in the past year and be encouraged to share more solutions, insights, and other knowledge in the coming year.
December 2023
Articles improvements
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Business
Article drafts The Articles feature allows users to capture long-form documentation in a single place alongside Q&A. With drafts, you’ll switch tools even less: You can now collaborate with other users in the platform to take an article from a private rough draft to a published piece of content that's ready to be voted on and discovered.
Expanded editing permissions Sometimes it’s better to source organic article updates if the contents will change frequently, so authors can now grant everyone on their site permission to edit. This permission setting will be the default for new articles.
Enhanced Slack notifications
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Free, Basic, Business
We updated our Slack integration to use Slack’s Block Kit, giving notifications a cleaner and more modern look. This update allows us to deliver future Slack integration enhancements faster.
Slack and Microsoft Teams notifications improvements
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Business
With our Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations, users can search and capture knowledge without leaving chat and automate channel notifications for relevant questions and answers. To increase article visibility and engagement, users can now automatically notify select Slack and Microsoft Teams channels of newly published articles tagged with relevant topics.
Subject Matter Expert (SME) label
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Business
When a question is answered by an SME in one of its tags, the new "Answered by a subject matter expert" label lets users know that the answer came from a trustworthy source. To better surface SME expertise and improve community trust in article content, a similar label now appears on articles when the author is also an SME for one of the article’s tags.
New Tags page
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Free, Basic, Business
The new Tags page surfaces helpful insights to improve tag health and time-to-answer. Prior to this release, Business users had to manually click into each tag to see if it had SMEs assigned. Now they can apply a “No SME assigned” filter on the Tags page to more easily assign SMEs to tags without one so they start getting notified of new questions and can provide prompt, authoritative answers. Free and Basic users will not see the SME filter or column.
New fields and endpoint for API v3
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Business
New data fields and a new endpoint for Teams API v3 to help users continue to extend and enrich Stack Overflow for Teams.
Tags The tags API endpoint now reports how many users are watching a specific tag. This can be helpful in gauging the popularity of a tag and how much visibility this tag receives. The tags endpoint also:
Reports on the post count, creation date, and subject matter expert count fields.
Supports filtering based on whether tags have SMEs or not.
Supports querying by the partial name of the tag
Automatically includes SMEs with /tag/{id}. It’s no longer necessary to make an additional call to /tags/{id}/subject-matter-experts
Answers The answers API endpoint will now report when an answer is provided by a subject matter expert with an SME label. This can be valuable for a variety of reporting purposes.
Email addresses The users API endpoint now reports the email addresses of users. Email addresses are often an important identifier when integrating Stack Overflow for Teams with other systems and applications.
Articles A brand new endpoint for API v3. You can now create, edit, and report on Articles via the API.
September 2023
Communities launch
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Business
We added Communities, which are self-organizing, bottom-up groups that help bring colleagues together across projects, interest, and need, narrowing the scope to be more focused around a central theme or domain. Users who join these Communities can keep a pulse on activity around their area of interest so they know what’s trending, who’s sharing new knowledge, and where there’s opportunity to contribute or learn.
July 2023
SOC 2 Type II compliance
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Business
Stack Overflow for Teams Business plan is SOC 2 Type II compliant. A SOC (Service Organization Controls) 2 Type II report attests that the controls that we put in place match established and trusted requirements including applicable international security. SOC 2 examines the policies and controls around security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. SOC 2 Type II measures control effectiveness over a sustained six-month period. For more information, read our Security Overview.
June 2023
In-App Engagement and Communications (Intercom)
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Free, Basic, Business
We added an updated Intercom interface that empowers a faster and more effective onboarding process for new users, and provides an engagement experience that is more immersive for existing users.
May 2023
API V3 launched
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Basic, Business
API v3 is the third version of the Stack Overflow for Teams API. It builds on API v2 with new capabilities and an updated interface. The goal of API v3 is to meet customer expectations in terms of design patterns and functionality, resulting in easier integration, deeper integrations, and innovative use cases.
User Role and Department in SAML
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Basic, Business
SAML single sign-on (SSO) allows sites to securely share user information for authentication, communicating with trusted identity providers (IdPs) like Okta, Azure, and OneLogin. In this release, we’re adding two new fields to allow admins to optionally capture additional user details (job title and department) from their IdP and display those fields in the user’s profile.
Bookmarks menu
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Free, Basic, Business
We added a new left-nav menu option to easily access your Bookmarks. Bookmarks allow a user to save any article or question by clicking on the icon under the voting buttons.
January 2023
Your 2022 Stacked
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Business
Your Year Stacked is an interactive activity summary that goes beyond the dashboard to provide a curated, interactive recap of community engagement. Users can see their contributions in the past year and be encouraged to share more solutions, insights, and other knowledge in the coming year.
December 2022
Personal Access Tokens (PATs) for API v2.3
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Basic, Business
New personal access token (PAT) replaces the API authentication method that uses secret keys and access tokens.
November 2022
Domain change to stackoverflowteams.com
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Free, Basic, Business
To improve product experience, security, and scale, we separated the stackoverflow.com public site and Stack Overflow for Teams sites.
June 2022
Enhanced Dashboard
Applies to: Stack Overflow for Teams Business
The enhanced Dashboard provides key engagement metrics to gain critical insights into site health and success. It has a new look, tag filter, date range comparisons and benchmarks, trending and integration insights (Slack and MS Teams), improved and additional statistics, admin settings, and more.
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